The Shallow and the Sickly Coast: A History of Menace and Reassurance On An Italian Seashore
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York CityA lecture by Sean Cocco, Trinity College, CT. Introduced by Karl Appuhn, NYU. Changes along Italy's southern Adriatic coast five centuries ago created human and ecological conditions that endured for centuries. Menaces born of people and of the sea worked their way into the ecologies of the shore, leaving behind material and conceptual traces of that time. The shore was imagined…